- Secret
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- Nov 07, 2020
May Quotes
Words shaped by possibility and doubt.
These may quotes range from an honest admission of lingering insecurity carried from childhood, to a scientific point about how measurement affects what can be known about the past. Another notes that even the clearest concept only applies within limits. Related reflections continue in our April quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.
- Nov 07, 2020
I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.
- Full
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
- Downplay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatives are often fond of La Rochefoucauld's famous aphorism that 'Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue,' and so tend to downplay hypocrisy as a sin. But in the marketplace of ideas they champion, hypocrisy may yet turn out to be the deadliest - or costliest - of sins.
- Buddhists
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- Nov 07, 2020
China may brutalize Buddhists in Tibet and Muslims in Xinjiang while denying basic rights to the rest of its 1.3 billion citizens, but 'woke' activists pushing intersectionality keep mum on all that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Isn't the purpose of bitcoin mining simply to get rich - or not, as the case may be? Well, at 21, we are less concerned with bitcoin as a financial instrument and more interested in bitcoin as a protocol - and particularly in the industrial uses of bitcoin enabled by embedded mining.
- Devices
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- Nov 07, 2020
We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more accessible for the developing world.
- Frustrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for my daily, it usually consists of a smoothie in the morning with banana, spinach and blueberry and veggie protein powder, then some kind of tofu or tempeh scramble with veggies. Later, I may have some type of rice and beans, salad with lentils, sweet potato, nut butter sandwich and another smoothie.
- Deflation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Near-zero policy rates that may be considerably expansionary in an economy with high inflation could be contractionary when inflation is too close to zero, or worse, deflation has set in.
- Fashion Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fashion industry may persist to label me as 'plus-size,' but I like to think of it as 'my size.'
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020